TV's been doing the set-up work for years... gently prepping us... slowly inundating us with live audiences, then laugh tracks, then nothing but our own morbid sense of humor... Even the History channel seems to have lost it's verve in the face of such enlightening TV as Who's Your Daddy?
Oh oh oh -- did anyone see that Seinfeld re-run last night? When Kramer had the oil tanker inven-- Hey, email fram Nambikstan... all caps, must be important!
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To select a few (I know, us liberals can be pretty selective):
... comparing him to Michael Moore... plain irrational... classical liberal... as opposed to marxist...
I mean, I know this country is afflicted, I just didn't realize I was subpoenoed to appear in front of McCrathy's ghost already.... Oh, wait, a letter... From the White House! I mean, it's got the logo and everything! I'm so excited to open it... [ knock knock ]
However, as a small business owner, it wouldn't have to be illegal for me to decide not to advertise with Google -- thus hurting Google's income. If businesses feel they are going to get defrauded, they are going to pull. It doesn't have to be illegal.
I wouldn't put this out in the public without a fake name or a noose... Whoever put this up front and center should be forced to have an account on MyUID for each email address he/she has. AIM information optional.
I don't think that they are ready for the geek brigades yet; let the Army communications officers handle it until it dies down. I'm sure they'll still pay handily in a few months.
OTOH, you'd probably be in the back someplace... but you never know...
See, the problem with that is that if we're replaced by the H1-B's, then (a). you won't have a place to walk away from; or, they can flood the market and make sure drive down wages (oooohhh, I can just hear my boss going 'But X will work for.97 an hour.' Ahh, grasshopper, so if we were to unionize and lobby then maybe we could have an effect... otherwise, I think we're just being arrogant -- 'Ah, c'mon, they won't hire X.' BS -- look at the recent layoffs in.com to try and be profitable.
Not that I particularly want to unionize, but I think unions are useful (well, if they aren't run wastefully) and I do think we'd be arrogant not to think our jobs aren't being thrown out to the lowest bidder.
They are going after the wrong people. The reason people are freaked is because of the media -- which brings out copy-cats, which then hits the media, which brings out copy-cats... They should be creating a task force to investigate media sources, to go after the inventions the media come up with (the Jon-Benet case springs to mind), and to make sure no-one is paying for the media (or at LEAST say 'this company owns this media outlet'). Kids are confused enough. Put that energy where it's needed -- educating them instead of making their lives hell.
Sure, but the worst case analysis isn't orders of magnitude greater than for a digital machine. From what I understand, the only real gains are for cryptography (anyone performing an experiment -- ie, trying to read your data -- would corrupt it due to quantum entanglement); and in solving the Traveling Salesman way faster since you can bust out factorial mathematical keys very fast (also related to encryption). Searching would be almost instant (if you count the data's load time as a scalar) since you could load all the possible values into quantum states (eigenvalues) and perform a single experiment -- sorting, I believe, would still be difficult (perhaps more difficult due to corruption?). The good news: quantum entanglement allows for fast-as-light calculations (some of those O(n)+b problems shrink to O(1)). I guess you'd really have to ask yourself: How are dictionary operations changed? How do these changes affect fundamental data types? And how do we make these data types work within our algorithms? I think it'll most likely depend on who gets what to function -- people are using trapped ions, liquids, and Univ. of Oregon is trying to use light. Depending on how the properties of each work, we'll get different upper bounds on different operations. Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist, I'm a computer scientist.
Maybe it's a new application of an old process, but LOOK WHO'S TRYING TO DO IT! I certainly don't want Microsoft helping me administer that way. I can just imagine the headaches it would cause and I pray there's a way to turn that sucker off. They have enough trouble trying to build a web browser that's secure, much less a central repository that'll keep track of all my traffic. How will they deal with sharing conflicts? Probably through memory leaks. And anyone who has written any software can't help but laugh at the Research Division (in caps)and the overstated 'bigger is better' way the M does things (we have liasions (with communications degrees prolly) for our programmers so that way no one really knows what they're talking about!).
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TV's been doing the set-up work for years... gently prepping us... slowly inundating us with live audiences, then laugh tracks, then nothing but our own morbid sense of humor... Even the History channel seems to have lost it's verve in the face of such enlightening TV as Who's Your Daddy?
Oh oh oh -- did anyone see that Seinfeld re-run last night? When Kramer had the oil tanker inven-- Hey, email fram Nambikstan... all caps, must be important!
No pre-formulated opinion turned away! Lease an opinion now, low RTFA rates (OAC)! Don't know what you're talking about? It's okay with our Get Modded Out Of Troll Payment Plan (tm).
I mean, I know this country is afflicted, I just didn't realize I was subpoenoed to appear in front of McCrathy's ghost already.... Oh, wait, a letter... From the White House! I mean, it's got the logo and everything! I'm so excited to open it... [ knock knock ]
Why is the parent +4 Insightful?????? This should be -2:Redundant. Or at least -1:Idiotic. Or maybe, just maybe, +5:Droll Brit Humor.
All moderators who modded the parent comment up should be dragged into the street and shot.
What about string theory? Is _that_ provable?
However, as a small business owner, it wouldn't have to be illegal for me to decide not to advertise with Google -- thus hurting Google's income. If businesses feel they are going to get defrauded, they are going to pull. It doesn't have to be illegal.
Cravenly, he reaches for the remote, his hands shaking with desire... How bad he needs this hour of Television...
Seriously people, it's TV. Cut back (but maybe not too much at once).
I don't think that they are ready for the geek brigades yet; let the Army communications officers handle it until it dies down. I'm sure they'll still pay handily in a few months.
OTOH, you'd probably be in the back someplace... but you never know...
Not that I particularly want to unionize, but I think unions are useful (well, if they aren't run wastefully) and I do think we'd be arrogant not to think our jobs aren't being thrown out to the lowest bidder.
They are going after the wrong people. The reason people are freaked is because of the media -- which brings out copy-cats, which then hits the media, which brings out copy-cats... They should be creating a task force to investigate media sources, to go after the inventions the media come up with (the Jon-Benet case springs to mind), and to make sure no-one is paying for the media (or at LEAST say 'this company owns this media outlet'). Kids are confused enough. Put that energy where it's needed -- educating them instead of making their lives hell.
Sure, but the worst case analysis isn't orders of magnitude greater than for a digital machine. From what I understand, the only real gains are for cryptography (anyone performing an experiment -- ie, trying to read your data -- would corrupt it due to quantum entanglement); and in solving the Traveling Salesman way faster since you can bust out factorial mathematical keys very fast (also related to encryption). Searching would be almost instant (if you count the data's load time as a scalar) since you could load all the possible values into quantum states (eigenvalues) and perform a single experiment -- sorting, I believe, would still be difficult (perhaps more difficult due to corruption?). The good news: quantum entanglement allows for fast-as-light calculations (some of those O(n)+b problems shrink to O(1)). I guess you'd really have to ask yourself: How are dictionary operations changed? How do these changes affect fundamental data types? And how do we make these data types work within our algorithms? I think it'll most likely depend on who gets what to function -- people are using trapped ions, liquids, and Univ. of Oregon is trying to use light. Depending on how the properties of each work, we'll get different upper bounds on different operations. Disclaimer: I'm not a physicist, I'm a computer scientist.
Maybe it's a new application of an old process, but LOOK WHO'S TRYING TO DO IT! I certainly don't want Microsoft helping me administer that way. I can just imagine the headaches it would cause and I pray there's a way to turn that sucker off. They have enough trouble trying to build a web browser that's secure, much less a central repository that'll keep track of all my traffic. How will they deal with sharing conflicts? Probably through memory leaks. And anyone who has written any software can't help but laugh at the Research Division (in caps)and the overstated 'bigger is better' way the M does things (we have liasions (with communications degrees prolly) for our programmers so that way no one really knows what they're talking about!).